I already get rate-limited like crazy on lemmy and there are only like 60,000 users on my instance. Is each instance really just one server or are there multiple containers running across several hosts? I’m concerned that federation will mean an inconsistent user experience. Some instances many be beefy, others will be under resourced… so the average person might think Lemmy overall is slow or error-prone.
Reddit has millions of users. How the hell is this going to scale? Does anyone have any information about Lemmy’s DB and architecture?
I found this post about Reddit’s DB from 2012. Not sure if Lemmy has a similar approach to ensure speed and reliability as the user base and traffic grows.
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/
I am not, I actually volunteer 5h a week to teach kids in underprivileged neighborhoods, in an attempt to reduce the racial gap in the United States. There are a lot of racial problems in the US, due to the botched Reconstruction of the 19th century; and I firmly agree that it’s our common responsibility that to act to remediate this. I think education is a powerful weapon to bring opportunities and safety, so that’s where my focus is.
I guess the difference between someone like the Lemmy devs and you, and someone like me, is that I’m fully aware there are problems everywhere, but I won’t automatically associate someone’s nationality/residency to those problems; only what those people explicitly say about it. I initially considered that the issues people were having with the Lemmy devs were because they were not being US-centric, until I was linked to their past hateful posts on Reddit. I can’t believe they actually took questions on r/AskATankie; before that I was annoyed that people were calling them “tankies” because it sounded like a slur, I had no idea they actually identified as such. It’s the same feeling I get when I see Americans carrying a Nazi flag or a Confederate flag. So disheartening.
It is convenient to think of the world as divided in nationalities, a lot of things would be simpler. You need to realize that it’s a bit more complicated than that. China has a lot of successful high-scale services, with TikTok, Weibo, Alibaba, etc. It would be excellent if, for instance, ownership of Lemmy moved to a Chinese engineer (or a team of Chinese engineers of course) who helped with scaling those; provided it’s not someone with hateful view who self-identifies as a tankie. It doesn’t sound like a lot to ask.
Wherever you live, I am glad you are personally safe. I mean it for real. It’s better if you do things around you for those who aren’t, but I don’t resent people who don’t, we all do what we can.
